I went on a march yesterday. I went on the march because I spent four years doing an undergraduate degree, six years doing a PhD and two semesters building up teaching experience to find that higher education in the UK is no longer a viable career choice if you value any kind of quality of life at all and also that it will be very difficult from ( Read more... )

1. Tony Benn speaking today at 5pm in the Stretch, at the top of the Students' Union, along with some anti-war types.

2. Lunchtime recital tomorrow in Deptford Town Hall: (Nick Flatto (voice) will be performing Mozart aria "Se vuol ballare", Vaughan-Williams "The Vagabond" and songs from West Side Story. Miriam Hilmi (voice) will be performing ( Read more... )